From the Principal 

I am so excited and proud to be offered the Principal role (provisionally) for our school. Thank you to everyone for welcoming me into the school and I am now looking forward to working together with our school community to continue to achieve great outcomes for our students.

Although the DET has announced that there is a continuation of the COVIDSafe measures in schools, the changes made have meant that our school can now have fully vaccinated visitors onsite. This has meant that we have been able to have guest speakers in to talk to our students; including a gold medal Olympian, Rosie Popa and representatives of The Men’s Project talking to our Year 8s about gender identity.

It has also meant that this week we can have our Year 7 Family Picnic, which is the first of hopefully many events throughout the year where we can welcome our families back onsite. At this stage we will be running events that we can hold outdoors and we will continue to run events virtually where it is more suitable.

Today we held our Whole School Assembly. It was amazing to see all of our school community in the one space at the same time. I thank the staff and the students that assisted in the planning and logistics of the assembly as well as families that sent their child to school with a cushion that had a varying percentage chance of returning that afternoon. Our Year 12 Captains; Karla, Noah, Sophie and Amelie led the Assembly and we had our previous year 12 Captain, Kit Robinson return to pass-on the leadership mantle.

This week staff and students are completing the new look Learning Behaviour Reports to be published on Friday 11 March. In our last newsletter an outline of the reports was given as well as a link to a document that outlines the purpose of the report and how the assessments are linked to their learning. It might be an interesting activity to rate yourselves on the rubric, our students have been doing this over the last week to provide an opportunity to reflect on their learning behaviours and areas that they could grow.

Each year schools are expected to present The Annual Report to the school Community, The Annual Report provides an opportunity for the school community to celebrate achievements, reflect on the school’s performance, and understand where and how improvement efforts have enhanced student achievement, engagement and wellbeing. We will be holding the presentation of the on the 24 March at 6:00pm in the PAC, all welcome.

I thank families for supporting COVIDSafe behaviours at school. We have seen many students still wearing their face masks when they are unable to socially distance and I commend them for this. Through mask wearing and other COVIDSafe measures, we have continued to keep the number of cases onsite very low and hope that this continues for the rest of the Term.

We hope that all our families remain well and we look forward to running our community events with families onsite.

Chris Jones

(Provisional) Principal